Binary image encryption in a joint transform correlator scheme by aid of run-length encoding and QR code

Abstract We propose a binary image encryption method in joint transform correlator (JTC) by aid of the run-length encoding (RLE) and Quick Response (QR) code, which enables lossless retrieval of the primary image. The binary image is encoded with RLE to obtain the highly compressed data, and then the compressed binary image is further scrambled using a chaos-based method. The compressed and scrambled binary image is then transformed into one QR code that will be finally encrypted in JTC. The proposed method successfully, for the first time to our best knowledge, encodes a binary image into a QR code with the identical size of it, and therefore may probe a new way for extending the application of QR code in optical security. Moreover, the preprocessing operations, including RLE, chaos scrambling and the QR code translation, append an additional security level on JTC. We present digital results that confirm our approach.

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